Hurricane Ike: Typhoon Ike
Posted by cebloggerSep 12
Hurricane Ike
After Gustav and Hanna, here comes Ike. A category 2 Hurricane Ike, with winds up to 105 mph is heading towards Texas and may hit land late Friday or early Saturday. Nearly a million residents along the Texas coast were ordered to leave and evacuate ahead of the storm. Weather forecasters said that the storm was likely to become Category 3, with rampaging winds up to 130mph.
It’s scary to hear that hurricanes like this can cripple even large and advanced cities. I hope that my friends in Texas will all be alright.
Typhoon Ike
Typhoon Ike was the deadliest typhoon that hit the Philippines in 1984. The local weather bureau called that Typhoon Nitang. Its heavy rainfall and winds killed 1,492 people, mostly from the Visayas region. I can remember that day when a mango tree fell and almost hit our house. We lost a few sheets of our roof, and my bed was very wet. Between 200,000 and 480,000 people were left homeless in the wake of the storm. We had few neighbors who lost their homes, too. The typhoon left a damage of over billions of pesos, the costliest typhoon in Philippine history.
I was nine years old then. Days after the typhoon, the water that flooded a rice field nearby did not subside immediately. Kids my age were enjoying a muddy swim, unaware of the damage the typhoon brought somewhere else.
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